To make matters even worse for sweaty-palmed tourists, the walkway snakes through 99 gut-wrenching turns along the route.
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The walkway, made out of glass so fearless hikers can look down on the 984ft drop, runs for 110 yards along the sheer face of Tianmen Mountain (or Tianmenshan Mountain).
China’s newest glass-bottomed walkway is a real hair raiser.
The glass-bottom attraction is called the Coiling Dragon Cliff walkway, stretching 330ft-long and just 5ft wide on the Tianmen Mountainside. Yes, according to reports, this is not the first glass-bottom walkway that has opened up.
And there’s sure be many more – Tianmenshan’s first skywalk opened in 2011 with thousands of fearless tourists flocking to sample life on the edge.
The national park already offers tourists the world’s highest and longest glass bridge at 430m and suspended over a 300m-deep valley.
Titled as the Coiling Dragon Cliff, the walkway has been built for the nature-loving tourists.
In July the makers of the bridge invited a BBC journalist in to take a sledgehammer to the bridge to reassure visitors of its safety. And although the top layer cracked, the pane remained stable.
But not everyone is cut out for the terrifying walk.
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In June a video emerged on YouTube showing terrified people attempting to walk – or crawl – across the see-through surface.
